Major music and media have been doing this forever it seems. Building up the product with hype. Once you got it you find it wasn’t near what it was built up to be. But they got your money for you to find that out. The Hulk is one of the best examples I can think of that fell on its face because word got out ahead of time of just how sorry a film it was. That for the most part didn’t come from the critics, it came from the p2p users that posted their opinions on the net. The film bombed to say the least, as it should have, and it left the industry with another axe to grind. No one guarrented that if major music or media make a product it entitles them to a profit. Were it any other product that you could examine in the store and turn it over and look at the quality, I suspect that these industries would do far better at the quality aspect. They are so used to making a B grade copycat version and hyping it as the prima donna theme and raking in the dough as a result of a misinformed public buying the hype as well as the product. That only goes so far before the people start looking at the product and waiting to see if it is worth it from someone else that spent the money to see.

With the steady increase in prices it has reached the point that people are backing up yet again to make a judgement pick between choices. Since they are sceptical on both to begin with, many look, think, and walk. They wait till they have tried it, heard of it from someone else, or just simply drop the idea all together for something a bit more substancial such as a game.

None of these win the majors any respect and far less income in the pocket. Those mega-corporations have now an image problem. One that sue ‘em all hasn’t done anything to improve. Truely the customer is king and is telling them they don’t have it right. Even the courts seem to be echoing this by turning aside many of the cases with rulings that aren’t exactly what the majors wanted, wished, or sought.

Quite right. If you read some of the .nfo files created by old school release crews you will find that they say the same thing. If you like what you see, go buy the real thing and support the creator, after all, they (the cracking groups) did.

I actually squirted a little irn-bru out my nose when I discovered my semi-incoherent rant on the front page of this here hallowed site! Thanks for the honour, Jon. And cheers to you readers for the props! I feel all fuzzy inside : D

The length of my post was also a bit of a suprise, I must’ve been really incensed about the whole thing to stay focused (kinda) for long enough to write it!

Keep on fighting the good fight people, don’t let those megalomaniacs get you down! Even if they try to sue the drawers off your dear old granny.

Peace and P2P

Donald “try before you buy” Hollybags

Let’s stick this one to the top of the page somewhere.

I’d like to add..

Big Music “piracy” statistics never seem to mention the Delete volume on file sharing. Does anyone keep 50% of the **** they download? 25%?

Also, is it a coincidence, or has the quality of music been on the decline since Napster? It seems file sharing first became big at a time of musical revolution, riding on the tail end of cyberpunk and electronica crazes. Has it all moved back underground now, or is Big Music hiding all of the good stuff somewhere?

Since you talk about SW3 – I am in that 95% of populace you speak of – downloaded, did a quick fly-thru and bought theater tickets, and DivX will be on my disk untill DVDs come out (Georgy-boy, will this be any time soon?
But I will not go into theater or a record store blindly no more…

… p2p moto should be download, sample, buy (if the price is right) or delete …

But do you think RIAA/MPAA members will recognize the increase in profit from p2p? No way! They are only talking about lost sales …

*Claps like a manian*

Well said, old chap. well said.